rupert murdoch's media empire abandons its bid to take over britain's largest satellite broadcaster as a frenzy over newspaper hacking consumes politicians and police. divers are said to make a final attempt to find twenty four victims of russia's pleasure cruise or disaster who are still missing. and the company that branch of the cruise has been arrested. and to washington where russia lays out

a new step by step strategy towards iran that may bring to iran back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program. maybe out of the russian capital you're watching r t with the rena joshie welcome to the program were murdered some battle medium pyar news corp has announced that it's dropping its bid to take control of britain's largest satellite broadcaster the move is intended to head off public outrage over allegations that several of his newspapers were gauged in ramp and phone hacking scandal has grown to include the british government and police officials who stand accused of complicity and corruption across the atlantic shocked us senators are calling for a probe into allegations that nine eleven victims were also targeted by murdoch's newspapers but as are his war and it reports the media moguls rise over the decades

offer of plenty of warning signs over what was to come. rupert murdoch's push to expand in british media has come to a halt public and political rage over thirteen hacking was forced news corp to drop its bid to buy satellite broadcaster b. sky b. but some say he's already killed the british press and they were saying it's bought back in one thousand nine hundred eighty one that's when he went on a media spending spree and bought amongst others the world renowned times newspaper news international has been playing toxic part of our public life for so long but it worked under his ownership circulation just kept on rising in a market that killed off others and sky t.v. a loss making and obscure satellite network rocketed to become the biggest player in the u.k.'s pay t.v. market i do admire rupert murdoch because he's a risk taker when he was at the times and sunday times of london the newspaper

business was absolutely in peril in the u.k. mostly because of the unions and because of another economic factors he turned that around. basically there are people who will say that he saved the newspaper industry in london because of the whopping revolution in one thousand nine hundred six but now it's clear that success came with a heavy price tag morality murdoch's journalists kept the ratings high i violating and exploiting the vulnerable they hacked the private voice mails of families of dead soldiers and of murdered children essentially we've seen criminality and invasion of privacy on a staggering into scale not even the rich and powerful could escape then chancellor gordon brown's baby was splashed over the front page of the sun his illness a sick headline royal family phones were hacked the scandal even goes right to the heart of the police force senior police officers were bribed by journalists for

tipoffs on sensitive investigations privately. we made public now we've got. some. gordon brown's private life you have to so you have to stop wonder what else is there and of course it's not only it's not just. what we call blanket these are people. information what should be private so. it's taken thirty years for the worst fears about the british press to come true but come true they have murdoch may own successful newspapers in an ailing market but their papers which have lost their greatest asset the public's trust the u.k. has more c.c.t.v. cameras person than anywhere else in the world i've counted eight just in this small carpark so britain's always know big brother is watching but the question now is what's big brother watching for and more importantly who's trying to pry him.

r.t. . you're watching r.t. live from moscow still have for you this hour europe's struggle if you are flow takes another hit as the world's seventh largest economy wakes up to the reality it's still in debt. and tension rises in the israeli parliament as the prime minister himself has to step up in the sand an anti boycott bill which supports settlement projects but has been dogged by critics as a fronts to human rights. the fate of twenty four people from the sunken pleasure boat the bulgaria is still on their own divers will conduct the final search of the vessel today as out of the one hundred thirty believe drowned only one hundred five bodies have been found sunny strategy tragedy is russia's worst ever boating disaster ok now across like over time tom barton was

of the site is following the story for us there tom a difficult operation and not the easiest of conditions tell us what's going on how the search is going on what's happening where you are. well marina they have been sending out teams of divers time in and time out going back out to the platform in the middle of the volga and those divers have been searching for for days now for the for the bodies of the people inside the sunken bulgaria they've gone into most of the rooms now if not all of them down in the ship they are still trying to find twenty four coal for bodies that they say are as yet unaccounted for they may still be inside the ship they may be outside the ship and some of their worst fears may be that the currents when the ship sank may have carried those bodies as far as two hundred kilometers downstream that would be a worst case scenario but they may have to extend the search for those bodies

a long way downstream if they can't find them on the ship the divers have been working in teams going down with some divers in heavy gear going to clear obstacles in the path inside the ship tables and chairs of fallen over any wreckage that may have been caused when the ship hit the bottom of the river bed and then following divers have been taking the bodies up to the surface that is a long and complex operation but this they say will be one of their final attempts they're hoping to try and finish that operation and try and find these last twenty four bodies by around midday today there's also been developments with the ongoing investigations into this case a lady called. who is the owner of the company that rented the bulgaria to take it on this person cruz has been arrested she's been arrested because she

rented the ship and it's thought that she may well have known how poor the condition of the ship was and so as part of these ongoing investigations as to into why the ship was on the river in the. first place why it was allowed to sail in such terrible conditions she has been detained so has another expert in the in the region of perm and he was reported to have allowed the ship to leave perm some time ago to carry on sailing we heard about the growing list of problems that the ship was suffering one of the engines on the ship was reportedly repeatedly breaking down on the day as it sank staff warned the captain about that there was also reportedly an electricity generator that failed so that no s.o.s. message could be given so that no tannoy instructions could be given to people to help them evacuate we've also heard that emergency exits were blocked and that

a former captain of the ship who was who lost his job for warning former owners about the state of the ship had said that the ship was technically dead as long ago as two thousand and seven so this list of complaints just keeps growing and now the first arrests in these criminal cases are being made. all right tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us those date come part of reporting there from the republic of tatarstan. and we've got more on russia's worth noting accident on our web site of course log on to our. exclusive food diverse searching the ship on the bottom of an interview with a former captain of the doomed ship who says it was in no condition to see long before the sinking. to the stories now here in r t russia has proposed a new step by step strategy towards iran nuclear program the idea suggest making

limited concessions to tehran of bills along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after talks between the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov during his visit to washington but you also touched upon believe me and campaign with a lot of rovs a russia has less disagreement on the matter with the u.s. and with some european countries but energy is guided to count reports bilateral issues still face certain difficulties. with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that the leadership be able to choose their future leader it's the power towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree i mean if your world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya possible sees the actions of the allied force forces they are a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being one to

be interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why russia is blocking a u.i. and should have proclaimed them the syrian president and he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and present our side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude question says it says the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition who resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and if actively turning them into targets for the police and security forces take a listen they want to deploy. diplomacy exists not so condemn and school political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and make it condemnation without proposing any solution to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place

there is a good example of how we are all dealing with the situation in yemen no one's proposing to condemn anyone or it took the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone is the two sites to see joe and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues they're happy some agreements and disagreements as usual the topic women's bravely focused on agreements both pointed out the. positive and constructive mode in which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russia and the us of the landmark deal on arms reduction and even cooperation on afghanistan and have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once again stressed the american leadership support for russian joining the w.t.r. also they have signed a long awaited agreement on adoption after school horrible incidents involving

russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by them to stress the need for an agreement and a better oversight over how the children are treated in their new families and the deal finally came through the points in vision there included ban on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted licensed agencies also the agreement states that all foster children from russia will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that is very important as the agreement states that applicable laws for both countries will be used as a doctor related trials up until recently the americans they do not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state clinton preferred not to go into details and talk much about disagreements

but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan foreign minister lavrov said russians need a legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but again no specific comments on that yet. then it's countered. boarding there well we're here live for you twenty four seven but for even more news and videos just go to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what some are right now. find out why i am monuments to the first man in space you are you daryn will be unveiled friday the very heart of london. and it's a happy ending for an escape constrictor which brought fear when i was last in russia city are calling brad long and hard to learn how to meter long snakes locked away

in the first place. the currency crisis gripping the e.u. has taken a turn for the worse as italy's spurred by a string of ruinous market downturns begins to debate and merge and see spending cuts to trillion dollars a world seventh largest economy has been struggling to remain competitive since joining the euro zone but its debt has spiraled out of control a fact overlooked by many amid the more present problems in the e.u. it follows a downgrade of violence dads to junk status a serious blow to the euro zone as a bailout gridlock labor is to prop up its weakest economies u.k. an appeal call the teller told r.t.

the latest developments prove the single currency union is simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could. in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany france growing economies like germany was never going to read you one way to get on to this mess is for those countries to go back home for the potency of the value of moving. of the exports going to the moment because if you think that because they couldn't caesar . controlled by frank controlled by the european central bank controlled by. the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long before the people are. in rome. this thing is contagious right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue no three from the european union. largest economy. economy in the world i think you

can actually call with greece and portugal. the whole thing could cave in because if this really goes. into trying to speak. then we are in serious trouble the euro is inexplicably to the whole project and it's going to the european union . quite frankly you can see this whole thing. that's why this will put the savers in the u.k. and. the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison. as the e.u. struggles to preserve the euro and bring its runaway down under control our teams max kaiser and stacy her discuss whether italy's gold reserves might be making it a target the report is coming your way at seven thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview. twenty four hundred times ago. the second biggest position in the euro zone and that's the mother lode that i think that's been the target all

along the green the ireland portugal those are side shows there are little micro-cap countries not much of a deal there but italy's got actual gold at the i.m.f. and the people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned like eric cantor they're helping to facilitate the feeding of that twenty four hundred tons of gold because that is meaningful. it was a turbulent session and the israeli parliament as a prime minister himself had to defend a new bill outlawing consumer boycotts of products from settlements on occupied palestinian territory the law imposes high fives on boycott organizers and allow settlers to sue them for compensation opponents have called it a blow to israeli democracy or freedom it's one peace movement called bush as petitions to the high court against the law adam keller spokesman for movements

says israel is forfeiting a chance for peace with palestine by and that the bill. does the mudra very severely the freedom of speech where they go to certain members of the complaint that we can always come to a completely joules to the future will feel. any chance of peace between us and the palestinians and we have been calling me probably since one thousand nine hundred seventy two boy anything in the supermarkets which comes from the settlements because. he's helping the set of those making them still go. into. the makati connection to express cities citizens expressing. what they believe really big blow it is the only democracy and it's making. states i hope it will

not get to where we have to keep this fish is still another kind of papal ship but it is a very very good for anybody who feels about the future will freeze. what you actually live from moscow let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world twenty seven day prison uprising in business has ended after the national guard negotiated control of the facility back from inmates stand off at the jail again after thousands of troops stormed a prison unit and a weapon search days after a bloody action sparked gun fights between troops and inmates leaving one prisoner and two soldiers dead twenty wounded in a twitter message president in which august graduate of the stories for bringing a chance to the standoff. thousands are protesting in the kitchen cavill cairo for the six day running demanding the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their sit in to other cities demonstrators are also calling for the

president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military has warned for its asters against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally. he's twenty one people were killed and dozens injured after three coordinated bombings hit in the city of mumbai a blast happened during the rush hour in the country's busy financial center police suspect these long as a group indian mujahideen is behind the explosions the worst terror attack in the country since the two thousand and eight mumbai seed. from the weekly magazine shared his opinion on who he believes is responsible. well you know with chad we will go on till more do you a lot of good in getting muslim you don't. want because of this group i got this group basically have logical international support for because the border is times

i cited as we mentioned his group. decides. to logical support for implicitly they go but the nation which we hear you can do six eleven less bad has been you know chilling this term or you didn't get a deal the last seventy two years there have been waiting logistical and financial support they've been created. exceedingly high dosage pakistan and a lot of them to come back into india and then didn't even catch. all of emails. of boxes back in pakistan and guess you can go buy them a good plan to go to strike if you've got a nation. in pakistan. the u.s. is within reach of defeating al qaida and eliminating ten to twenty top militants will cripple the group for good was the statement from the new u.s. defense cheez leon panetta his military interrogator he's getting who shall believe the shells banana's taken to the polls with

a clear vision of the threats facing the u.s. . for every pentagon observer there is always a special moment when the result change of guard at the puzzle palace as the pentagon is right when known in a narrow circle of professionals so it was the particular event. has reincarnating in his new capacity as the military chief during his first interview in his new capacity he pointed to the troika of the multiple challenges to the united states national security emanating from pakistan yemen and somalia he is clear cut vision deserves full support both within and outside the united states it was just a pity that some of the u.s. media commissariat try to spoiled his new vision where after the meeting with kind of the own pioneer the misspelt them number off residual forces that are supposed

to stay you know afghanistan after the deadline instead of ankle biting be a u.s. secretary of defense they would better pay attention to the subtle discrepancy going to be in the new pentagon vision so clearly outlined by lone pine manor on the one side and poland that odd they're going to rule which was priscilla active provided by now to himself as the first place to nation place to announce his new vision is nowhere in between pakistan yemen and somalia. well time now for a business of date with me to stay with us. welcome to business ratings agencies like standard and poor's and moody's have become the subject of vicious attacks from politicians across europe they are being accused of

bias and being alarmist however nick parsons from national bank the national australia bank believes the claims are not justified what they are doing is taking into account a broader range of factors than simply debts and the immediate ability of a country to repay it for example japan has got a debt to g.d.p. ratio of more than two hundred percent but the ratings agencies are rather happy to live with that because there's a number is significantly higher than greece for example but the ratings agencies say two things first of all japan is a developed economy and it will over time create tax revenues and also it's got a very high level of savings so therefore it's able to finance its debt through internal sources so it is necessarily bias but i can understand that sometimes it can seem a little unfair but actually i think that unfairness itself and that charge that somehow the ratings agencies are not doing well actually i think it rather shows

that they're doing their job. all right let's take a look at the markets now with this trading near a four day high after signs of rising through demand in the u.s. countered speculation that the world's biggest consumer of crude may face a credit downgrade by moody's the agency it would be us under review for raising downgrades as talks to raise its a fourteen point three trillion dollar debt limit store both light sweet and rents decline around thirty five cents at this hour. to stock markets and cross a germ markets are trading in the red following a moody's threat to lower the u.s. credit rating as i mentioned and so hero stocks are pressured as trees and risk aversion pushed the u.s. dollar below the seventy nine again per dollar threshold exporters are the biggest losers with the nintendo dropping more than one and a half percent. on one percent and hong kong financials are also understanding pressure bank of china is losing almost two percent in china construction bank is

dropping beyond. two hours ahead of the opening bell here in moscow russian markets finished wednesday's trading session on a positive note here's our one percent my sex half a percent of russian equities are struggling for direction of the last couple of sessions on the one hand problems with the west and that are keeping investors are they on the other i will prices are making stocks attractive but beating the capital doesn't believe risk appetite will grow in the coming weeks. going forward of the course of the next few weeks here it's difficult to imagine that the investors facing such a difficult head wind see in the west would put on a lot of more risk and obviously russia being an emerging market it's hard to imagine with this in mind that we would head higher generally with feel that towards the end of the summer of the russian market would remain in the eight hundred two thousand range for the artists index we're now roughly in the middle of that range and i think the next couple of weeks it will first head towards

a lower bound before seen as seen a bounce. back in fifteen minutes time miles you got going here. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people

thought that nuclear weapons disappear. the risk is not zero love something might be going off by mistake special it solves the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert . but the civilians could use it i did as a three ball as in a good bit but you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you can you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't make up new flu weapons or build the new features. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalence of firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today.